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Software

Package {ggbrookings} - Author, maintainer.

Skills

R
Git & GitHub
Markdown
Tableau
HTML/CSS
SQL
Python

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Manuel Alcala Kovalski

I have made interactive visualizations viewed by thousands of people, authored he Brookings branded R visualization package, and written over 40 blog posts

Education

B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)

University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019

Philadelphia, PA

N/A

  • Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Forecasting, and Computer Programming

Work Experience

Senior Research Assistant

The Brookings Institution - Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy

Washington, D.C.

Current - 2019

  • Streamlined data collection by web scraping in R, automated data cleaning, modeled data, and communicated results through parametrized reports
  • Led data science trainings on R package development, data manipulation in R using the Tidyverse, and version control using Git and GitHub for staff across the entire organization
  • Built R Shiny applications to communicate insights from macroeconomic data

Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar

Leonard Davis Institute

University of Pennsylvania

2018

  • Independently analyzed data on 322,264 hospital admissions admissions using logistic regression in Stata

Undergraduate Researcher

Health Management and Policy Department

University of Miami

2018 - 2017

  • Conducted data analysis on projects related to health services research using R, Stata, and Python

Publications